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Custom fan colors allow your centrifugal fan to stand out or blend in with the surrounding industrial application from an external aesthetic perspective.
Spark-resistant fan construction is essential in many industrial fan and blower applications. These include applications where the fan is handling explosive materials or where the fan is installed in hazardous environments. For example, dust collection applications commonly require some level of spark resistant construction due to the explosive nature of dust.
RTD Temperature Sensors can prevent complications that could otherwise lead to bearing failure. Maintaining proper temperatures, along with vibration monitoring and proper greasing, optimizes the longevity of your bearings so they reach their L10 potential.
Adding vibration monitoring can lead to extended bearing life, and ensure your bearings reach their L10 potential. Vibration velocity measures in inches per second (IPS) how the equipment in question is being fatigued from vibration, ultimately influencing its longevity. The standard IOM (Installation, Operations, and Maintenance) manual recommends keeping vibrations under .124 inches per second for industrial fans operating in the installed state.
Fan bearing maintenance helps increase longevity and potential to reach the fan bearing’s full L10 life. Stated as a number of hours, L10 life indicates the life expectancy with 90% confidence that the bearings will meet the expectation. The higher your L10 life, the longer your bearings should last, provided you maintain your bearings.
What some may call a squirrel cage blower wheel is also what we call a forward-curved centrifugal fan. Either way, it gets its name based on the many small blades that make up this fan wheel causing it to look like a squirrel cage or hamster wheel! The result is a blower that moves higher volumes of air and gasses at low pressures for various industrial operations.
The self-cleaning radial tipped fan is a versatile component for moving high volumes of any kind of air through the industrial system. Although it works well with clean air, we often specify heavy-duty radial tipped blades in applications that include saturated gasses or abrasive particles. Considered self-cleaning, the radial tipped blades resist material build up.
The radial blade fan wheel in an industrial pressure blower helps move material-laden air at medium to high static pressures and stays clean in the process. That includes everything from light particles to heavier materials that can be sticky or abrasive, without compromising the fan wheel integrity.
There are several configurations of blades in the wheel of an industrial centrifugal fan or blower: inclined, curved, tipped, forward, backward, radial… sometimes it helps to get a visual. Here, we’re taking a close look at the backward inclined high volume fan.
There are several wheel designs for industrial centrifugal blowers or fans with unique blade profiles: forward, backward, radial inclined, curved, tipped…sometimes it helps to get a visual. Here, we’re taking a close look at the high-efficiency backward curved fan.
Over our years designing, developing and delivering custom centrifugal fans and blowers for industrial applications, we have learned that no detail is too small in the specification process. This holds true when we talk about motor bearings too. There’s a specific nuance to consider when selecting motors for high horsepower belt-driven fans.
How do you determine the right motor speed for your industrial centrifugal fan? You’ll need to consider your fan’s drive arrangement and one more factor that frequently gets missed: frequency of the motor’s input power.
The key indicator for determining fan motor size is fan brake horsepower (BHP), which represents the force needed to brake, or stop, the motor. This is the minimum amount of power needed to operate the fan.
